Right now the rate of species extinction exceeds that of past mass extinction events.
Relative to one human lifetime, Earth entered the present – or 6th - mass extinction
a while ago. World Wildlife Fund’s Living Blue Plane Report 2015 suggests
that Earth has lost half its non-human population in the last 40 years. Human population
increased by 55% in same time period.

In the absence of human and societal healing and transformation, ecologists estimate 95%
terrestrial species loss (Win-Win Ecology: How Earth’s Species can Survive In the
Midst of Human Enterprise – Michael L. Rosenzweig, 2003).

Driven by human insecurity, competition, and innocent ignorance, this mass extinction event is proving to catalyze mass transformation of whole human institutions and operating systems equivalent to the transformation of ecological communities since the industrial and technological revolutions began.

With friendship in practice lending to radical change in the market place, this mass extinction event can be allayed - biodiversity and associated cultural diversity can be revived.

biodiversity is social diversity

To protect the most vulnerable and vital remaining intact communities and regenerate
thriving local economies, individual relationship patterns are changing. In recognition
that humans need one another and other species, consumption of fuels and materials is
being adjusted to accommodate everyone’s needs.

Intimacy with the losses and suffering of disenfranchised community members, the vast
majority of whom are not human, encourages genuine personal and societal transformation
required to make living a lot less painful for everyone. Grieving communal losses is a
healthy, healing, transformative first response to awareness of mass species extinction
and ongoing genocide.